Teddy Roosevelt: “We cannot afford to substitute tenants for freeholders on the public…”

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We cannot afford to substitute tenants for freeholders on the public domain.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt asserts the importance of maintaining freeholders rather than tenants on public lands.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “We cannot afford to substitute tenants for freeholders on the public domain.”